High School Sports

Fallbrook promotes assistant coach, fills football vacancy for second time this offseason
The Warriors promoted John Hollcraft from assistant coach to head coach on Thursday

SoCal Regional ‘shows how deep the talent is’ in San Diego
News and notes following the 2025 high school baseball season

San Diego’s Athletes of the Week include SoCal Regional stars in baseball, softball
A look at San Diego's top high school athletes over the last week

Eastlake ace outlasts Christian for SoCal Regional title in Division 2
Addison Suriano gets out of three bases-loaded jams on the way to a SoCal title

Mater Dei Catholic routs Orange El Modena for SoCal Regional title in Division 1
“I’m speechless,” co-head coach Liz Centrullo says. “Because they always come through. Every time.”

Point Loma caps dream season with SoCal Regional softball title in Division 3
Just 7-21 three years ago, the Pointers are now among Southern California's best

Rancho Bernardo makes the most of its second chance, beats Point Loma for SoCal Regional baseball title
The Broncos capture the CIF Southern California Regional in Division 2, beating the Pointers 2-1

Patrick Henry falls in Division 1 SoCal Regional final
No. 1-seeded St. John Bosco wins 4-0 on Saturday in Bellflower

University City tops Mt. Carmel for SoCal Regional title in Division 3
Centurions win CIF Southern California Division 3 Regional championship before a standing-room-only crowd of nearly...

Preview: San Diego softball teams play Saturday for SoCal titles
A look at Saturday's three CIF Southern California Regional championship games

RB tops Eastlake, advances to Saturday’s SoCal Regional final
Win caps a packed postseason

Preview: San Diego teams to play for SoCal baseball titles on Saturday
A look at Saturdays Division 1, 2 and 3 regional finals

Mater Dei Catholic walks off, will play Saturday for SoCal Regional title
Lilia Alpuche smacs an RBI single in the bottom of the seventh, giving Mater Dei...

Mt. Carmel beats Venice in SoCal Regionals, advances to play UC in Saturday finals
Ethan Coyle's sacrifice fly scored Bryce Miller and the Sundevils walk away with an improbable...

Alumni Report: San Diego well-represented in NCAA baseball, softball championships
A look at how San Diego-area players fared in the college baseball and softball postseason

Granite Hills’ undefeated season ends with SoCal Regional loss to Villa Park
After going 26 games without a loss, the Granite Hills High School baseball team finally...

Sweet, slugging 16: Leyton Maherson leads Point Loma to SoCal Regional softball win
Point Loma's best-ever season continues

Playoff standouts named San Diego’s Athletes of the Month for May
A look at San Diego's best high school athletes in the month of May

Mater Dei Catholic’s Arri Romero could soon be the face of San Diego softball
Righty ace has work ethic, talent to match

Rankings: Open Division champs top our final poll of 2025 baseball season
Undefeated Granite Hills is No. 1, followed by Patrick Henry

San Diego’s Athletes of the Week include baseball, softball, track standouts
A look at San Diego's best high schools athletes over the last week

High school softball rankings: Mater Dei finishes postseason on top
Crusaders top our final softball poll of the 2025 season

Undefeated Granite Hills gets No. 4 seed in SoCal Regionals
Eagles beat Patrick Henry to win CIF San Diego Section Open Division title

Mater Dei Catholic tops Bonita Vista for Open Division softball crown
Crusaders win South Bay showdown

Point Loma beats RB for CIF San Diego Section Division 1 title
Pointers cap playoff run with CIF San Diego Section title

Carlsbad’s Makenna and Morgan Herbst make lasting impression at state track meet
San Diegans shine at state championships

Bishop’s, Olympian capture CIF softball titles
A look at Saturday's CIF San Diego Section softball finals

Ramona, UC capture CIF San Diego Section baseball titles
A look at Saturday's CIF championships

Mater Dei Catholic caps dream volleyball season with state championship
Club goes on epic run to win Division 4 state title

Granite Hills keeps undefeated season alive with CIF championship win over Patrick Henry
Club wins Open Division championship thanks to sixth-inning triple

Eastlake es on Disneyland, finds own happiest place in CIF title win over RB
Rather than visiting The Happiest Place on Earth, all 10 athletes played in the championship...

Atticus Enriquez does it all in Mt. Carmel’s CIF finals victory over San Ysidro
Mt. Carmel (21-12) advances to the Southern California Regionals

San Diego High’s Jasir Fontenot sizzles on first day of CIF state track meet
San Diegans fare well on Friday in Clovis

Plucky Pointers outlast West Hills for first CIF softball title
Point Loma's 3-2 victory over West Hills makes program history

Preview: South Bay softball showdown highlights CIF finals day
Bonita Vista takes on Mater Dei Catholic at 7 p.m. Saturday at UCSD

Previews: Point Loma-RB matchup caps CIF championship game tripleheader at USD
Previewing all three games scheduled for Saturday at Fowler Park

Preview: Mater Dei Catholic will play for state volleyball title on Saturday
Mater Dei Catholic takes on Merced Livingston at 11 a.m. from Fresno

High Tech-San Diego beats Crawford for Division 5 baseball title
The championship was the first for High Tech-San Diego

Lincoln captures first-ever CIF softball championship
Hornets beat La Jolla by 10 runs, capture Division 5 softball title

Calipatria plays “with our hearts,” captures first-ever CIF softball title
Teams puts up 27 runs in 19-run victory over Warner at UC San Diego

Rock Academy makes school history, wins CIF title in baseball
One year after falling in the CIF title game, Rock Academy gets up big, hangs...

Torrey Pines finishes second at SoCal tourney, advances to state golf finals
Whittier La Serna wins the team title at 8-under par

Preview: Division 1 title tilt between RB and Eastlake highlights Friday’s softball slate
Previewing Friday's Division 1 and Division 2 championships at San Diego State

Preview: Open Division title game caps CIF finals doubleheader at SDSU
Patrick Henry, Granite Hills to face off Friday for title of city's best

Preview: Herbst sisters lead San Diego track and field athletes into state meet
A look at this weekend's state track and field championships in Clovis

Patrick Henry scores just enough to beat Eastlake, advance to CIF finals
The sixth-seeded Patriots (21-9-2) advance to Friday's San Diego Section championship game against unbeaten and...

Southwest-El Centro will head to CIF finals, and not Tierrasanta, after win
Wednesday's win keeps Southwest out of "if-necessary" game

Preview: Two San Diego Section baseball titles up for grabs Thursday
The Division 5 and 5-AA championship games will be played Thursday at UCSD

Preview: SoCal golf champs to be crowned Thursday
Torrey Pines, Cathedral Catholic figure to challenge for title

Preview: Division 5, 5-AA softball titles on the line Thursday
A look at Thursday's CIF title games

Pointers punch ticket to first-ever CIF softball final
Win over Rancho Buena Vista sends Point Loma to first CIF finals in softball

Eastlake beats Patrick Henry; spot in finals up for grabs on Wednesday
Eastlake's 4-3 forces an "if-necessary" game on Wednesday

San Diego’s Athletes of the Week include playoff stars, champs
A look at the best high school athletes in San Diego over the last week

Competitors on the track and friends off it, 2 top runners gear up for state meet
Juniors La Jolla's Chiara Dailey and Eastlake's Jaelyn Williams have been battling on the track...

Mater Dei Catholic wins in volleyball regionals; Parker, Clairemont fall
Top-seeded Mater Dei Catholic uses a relentless approach and a well-rounded attack

San Diego High’s Jasir Fontenot blazes trail at section meet
Cavers' speedster stops watches with a wind-aided time in the 110 hurdles

Rancho Bernardo’s Justine Yong again finishes second at SoCal regionals
It's deja vu for the RB bton star

Carlsbad sisters smash records at CIF San Diego Section meet
Twins Morgan and Makenna Herbst shine, punch ticket to state championships

‘Small but mighty’ senior pitches Bonita Vista to playoff win
Third-seeded Bonita (23-6) advances to visit second-seeded Poway, the two-time reigning Open champions

Westview captures fourth gymnastics title by small margin over Mt. Carmel
Wiolverines wn by 0.1 points

Patrick Henry beats San Marcos, avoids “Elimination Saturday”
Vctory keeps the sixth-seeded Patriots (20-8-2) in the winners' bracket

Canyon Crest Academy, Torrey Pines fall in SoCal boys tennis regionals
The 2025 boys tennis seasons came to a close for Canyon Crest Academy and Torrey...

Preview: San Diego’s top runners head to to Mt. Carmel for section championships
A look at the athletes to watch in Saturday's CIF San Diego Section Track and...

Preview: San Diego’s bton stars head to Arcadia for SoCal regionals
A look at Saturday's reigonals

Francis Parker beats Canyon Crest Academy, will play Saturday for SoCal title
Parker will play at Santa Ana Mater Dei

Preview: Canyon Crest Academy, Torrey Pines to play for SoCal tennis title
The SoCal Regionals start Friday with quarterfinal play

Preview: CIF gymnastics champions will be crowned Friday at West Hills High School
The CIF San Diego Section championships are slated for Friday

Granite Hills wins Open Division playoff opener
EL CAJON — James Davis spent the better part of Wednesday morning in urgent care....

Torrey Pines sophomore wins CIF title at Torrey Pines
Evan Liu’s Titleist sat on the back corner of Torrey Pines South’s famed par-five No....

Nia Hall powers Temescal Canyon softball team past Etiwanda, into Division 1 semifinals
Hall hadn't homered this season, but she belted three long balls Tuesday afternoon as the...

Chieftains give visitors ‘the Clairemont,’ advance in SoCal boys volleyball regionals
Clairemont, winners of the first CIF title in program history Saturday, advances

Helix goes extra innings, wins playoff opener against Westview
Helix advances to the double-elimination phase of the tournament and faces No. 2 seed West...

Senior’s home run lifts Santa Fe Christian to playoff win
Connor Sawyer homers in just his fourth at-bat of the season

Sophomores first and second heading into final day of CIF golf championship
Torrey Pines High School's Evan Liu shoots a 3-under-par 68 to take the lead

High school report: Coaches will be honored; state soccer tourney coming
News and notes as the CIF San Diego Section's spring playoffs kick into high gear

High school softball rankings: Mater Dei on top as postseason starts
A look at San Diego's top high school softball teams

High school baseball rankings: Granite Hills, San Marcos 1-2 as playoffs start
A look at the best high school baseball teams in San Diego and beyond

Lightning-fast Fontenots are runners to watch as section, state track meets near
Anisa Bowen-Fontenot and her brother, Jasir Fontenot, lead San Diego High into the sectionals this...

San Diego’s Athletes of the Week include playoff stars
A look at the best high school athletes in San Diego over the last week

High school baseball, softball playoff brackets set
Ties complicate power-rankings-based seeding process

Preview: CIF San Diego Section boys golf championships start Monday
La Costa Canyon's Reed Arnaldo defends individual title during two-day event

Carlsbad, Torrey Pines among San Diego teams vying for first state title
The CIF is holding a boys state championship tournament for the first time

Roundup: Torrey Pines beats archrival LCC for boys lacrosse title
A look at Saturday's CIF San Diego Section boys lacrosse finals

Roundup: Carlsbad beats Torrey Pines in boys volleyball final; other results
A roundup of Saturday's CIF San Diego Section boys volleyball finals

Roundup: Rancho Bernardo, Carlsbad, Olympian all win girls lacrosse titles
A recap of Saturday's finals

Del Norte senior breaks section’s oldest record at state swim finals
Julien Rousseau breaks mark set by San Marcos' Tim Siciliano in 1998

San Diegans shine, but records safe during divisional meets
Del Norte's Paige Echsner among the athletes who shined Saturday

Del Norte takes two individual bton titles
One week after losing to Patrick Henry in the team championships, Del Norte edges the...

Last-minute goal propels Granite Hills past St. Augustine for boys lacrosse title
Eagles capture program's first-ever Division 1 title

St. Augustine avenges loss to Mission Vista, wins CIF boys volleyball title
Saints top Mission Vista for CIF San Diego Section Division 1 title

Coronado caps undefeated season by routing Cathedral Catholic in lacrosse final
Islanders girls, ranked 10th in the nation, start hot against Dons

Mater Dei Catholic wears Maranatha Christian down, wins CIF title
Crusaders take command in the fourth set and sprint to a 25-22, 22-25, 25-20, 25-15...

Preview: Torrey Pines, Carlsbad clash for Open Division volleyball title
Torrey Pines is the No. 7 team in the nation, according to MaxPreps

Preview: Del Norte-Carlsbad game highlights full slate of CIF girls lacrosse finals
Previewing the Open Division, Division 2 and Division 3 finals

Preview: Individual bton champs to be crowned Saturday
The action starts at 10:30 a.m. inside the Balboa Park Activity Center

Preview: Open Division final highlights day of boys lacrosse championships
The Open Division, Division 2 and Division 3 finals will be held Saturday at Westview...

Records poised to fall at San Diego’s divisional track meets
Three track meets will be held throughout San Diego County on Saturday

San Ysidro tops Monte Vista, wins first-ever boys volleyball title
Cougars complete turnaround, win CIF San Diego Section Division 5 boys volleyball title

Tri-City Christian fulfills dream, wins Division 5-AA section title
The No. 3 seed Eagles stay in control in each set.

Preview: Dons, Islanders square off Friday for Open Division lacrosse title
A look at the players to watch in Saturday's game